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                  <p class="p_Heading1"><span class="f_Heading1">Method</span></p>



  
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                <p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">public Class</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">A </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">method</span><span class="f_BodyText"> represents a UML </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">operation</span><span class="f_BodyText">. It is accessed from the Element </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Methods</span><span class="f_BodyText"> collection and includes collections for parameters, constraints and Tagged Values.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Associated table in .EAP file: </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">t_operation</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Method Attributes</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Flag indicating if the method is abstract (</span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">1</span><span class="f_Tabletext">) or not (</span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">0</span><span class="f_Tabletext">).</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Some further explanatory behavior notes (e.g. pseudocode).</span></p>
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<td bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">In earlier releases of Enterprise Architect this attribute had the UK/Australian spelling 'Behaviour'; this is still present for backwards compatibility, but please now use the 'Behavior' attribute for consistency.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="106" style="width:106px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">ClassifierID</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Classifier ID that applies to the </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">ReturnType</span><span class="f_Tabletext">.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Optional field to hold the method Code (used for the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Initial Code</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> field).</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="106" style="width:106px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Concurrency</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Concurrency type of method.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Flag indicating the method is </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Const</span><span class="f_Tabletext">.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Flag to indicate if the method is </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Leaf</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> (cannot be overridden).</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Flag indicating the method is defined as Pure in C++.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Flag to indicate if the method is a query (that is, does not alter Class variables).</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="90" style="width:90px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Boolean</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Flag to indicate if the method is </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">Root</span><span class="f_Tabletext">.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Flag to indicate a static method.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Flag indicating a Synchronized method call.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. A globally unique ID for the current method. System generated.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Descriptive notes about the method.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. All the applied stereotypes of the method in a comma-separated list.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Contains the </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Alias</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> property for this method.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="90" style="width:90px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">String</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Advanced style settings. Reserved for the use of Sparx Systems.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="90" style="width:90px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="collection.htm">Collection</a> of type <a href="methodtag.htm">MethodTag</a></span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read only. </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">TaggedValues</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> collection for the current method. Accesses a list of </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-style: italic;">MethodTag</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> objects.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. Exception information.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Read/Write. The method scope: </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Public</span><span class="f_Tabletext">, </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Protected</span><span class="f_Tabletext">, </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Private</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> or </span><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Package</span><span class="f_Tabletext">.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="439" style="width:439px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Returns a string value describing the most recent error that occurred in relation to this object.</span></p>
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